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Poll: With the probable Mad Cow instance in Washington, will you stop eating beef?

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Originally posted by: matt426malm
You have to eat cow brain/nervous tissue to catch the disease
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Not true, you can get it from eating just about any part of the cow if it has been infected. Harder to get it from eating musle of a cow, but still possiable. Also when they cut up the cows it all gets spread around, esp. with ground beef.


"Some 137 humans are known to have died from a variant of the disease that is transmitted by consuming meat from an animal with mad cow."


 
I'm amazed that 14 people actually voted for one of the options besides "no". It's people like that who need to be removed from the genepool.

Even when Great Britain had that "huge" infection a few years back, only what... 150 people died? Out of the nearly 70 million people who live in the UK? Now we have one isolated instance in the US, and people are actually going to stop eating meat.

Please, if you get that hysterical over such a minor thing, end yourself.
 
I ordered a number 9 at deangelo's today without realizing the mad cow disease news, no wonder the cashier was looking at me funny.
 
since these other countries are stopping all meat from the US from entering their countries, will this mean lower prices for us in the US? I hope so, I'd like to be able to buy some ribeyes for less than 4 dollars a pound.

KK
 
No.

There was a CJD case in my country a few years ago, too.
Stocks went somewhat down, fast food became a bit less popular and a lot of people were scared of beef.
A lot of money was spent on new CJD quick tests and identification methods. A great part of the money went into some lucky businessmen's pockets, like always (Y2K "disaster" and tons of other cases), some shops closed and the storm was over before it began.

I wonder how many conspiracy theorists will start saying John Titor was right.
 
Anyone see that comic about mad cow disease? There are two cows leaning up against a fence talking. One says to the other: "Gee, this mad cow thing is getting serious." The other one replies: "I'm not worried, it doesn't affect penguins."

😀
 
I like other protein foods like fish and chicken quite a lot, and I admit this will probably make me choose beef less often just to err on the safe side.

As it is, I'm inelegible to donate blood because of the time frame that I was stationed in Germany due to that BSE scare 🙁
 
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